Deputy Clerk of the Closet
The Deputy Clerk of the Closet is the Domestic Chaplain to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. The office was created in 1677. Since 1931, the Deputy Clerk is also the sub-dean of the Chapel Royal. The Deputy Clerk is the only full-time clerical member of the Ecclesiastical Household of the Monarch of the United Kingdom.
From 1746 until 1903 there were three Deputy Clerks. By 1923 there was only one.
List of Deputy Clerks of the Closet
- Paul Wright 2015 – present
- Bill Scott 2007–2015
- William Booth 1991–2007
- Anthony Caesar 1979–1991
- James Mansel 1965–1979
- Maurice Foxell 1948–1965
- Wallace Elliott 1941–1948
- Launcelot Percival 1931–1941
- Frederic William Farrar 1894–1931
- Edgar Sheppard 1903–1910
- John Neale Dalton 1897–
- William Rowe Jolley ca 1901–?
- Charles John Vaughan 1882–1897
- Hugh Pearson 1881–1882
- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley 1863−1881
- John Merewether, Dean of Hereford 1837–1850
- Timothy Fish Foord-Bowes 1835–1837
- Frederick-William Blomberg 1827–1837
- Charles Richard Sumner 1824–1826
- Robert James Carr 1821–1824
- James Stanier Clarke 1816–1817
- Thomas Hughes 1808–1833
- William Cookson 1805–1820
- Edward Legge 1803–1805
- Charles Moss 1800–1806
- Henry Majendie 1794–1800
- William Arnald 1782–1787
- John Fisher 1781–1785
- William Buller 1764–1793
- Newton Ogle 1762–1781
- Charles Poyntz
- Hon Frederick Keppel 1759–1762
- Edward Townshend 1748–1758
- Jonathan Shipley 1750–1760
- Lord James Beauclerk 1745–1748
- John Head 1745–1760
- Robert Hay Drummond 1741–1748
- Alured Clarke, Dean of Exeter 1734–1742
- Charles Naylor 1726–1738
- John Gilbert 1723–1738
- Gilbert Burnet 1723–1726
- Henry Egerton 1719–1723
- ---? Talbot 1718–1723
- ---? Torriano 1716–1718
- William Wake 1689–
- J. Montague 1684–
- Nathaniel Crew 1667–